Ellen Mercer Fallon

Government, Mediation
P.O. Box 351
Middlebury, Vermont 057530351


Government

Admitted

1977, Vermont and U.S. District Court, District of Vermont

Law School

University of Pennsylvania, J.D., cum laude, 1977

Law School Graduation Year

1977

College

Mary Washington College of University of Virginia; Middlebury College, A.B., magna cum laude, 1972

Memberships

Vermont (President, 1987-1988) and American (House of Delegates, 1989-1998; Standing Committee on Professionalism, 1995-1998; Task Force on Criteria for Evaluation of Judicial Performance, 1984-1985; Council, Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, 1984-1987; Vice-Chair, Agricultural Law Committee, Section of General Practice, 1980-1983; Commission on Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts, 1998-2000) Bar Associations; Fellow, American Bar Foundation; National Conference of Women's Bar Associations (Board of Directors, 1981-1990; Secretary, 1990-1994).

Biographical

Phi Beta Kappa. Counsel to Governor of Vermont, 1985-1986. Vermont State Board of Mental Health, 1979-1985. Chair, Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Vermont Rules of Criminal Procedure, 1980-1985. Chair, Vermont Task Force on Gender Bias in the Legal System, 1988-1991. Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Judicial Performance Development, 1984-1985, 1993—; Board of Trustees, Vermont Legal Aid, 1982-1984; New England Board of Higher Education Commission on Legal Education and Practice and the Economy of New England, 1986-1990; Board of Trustees, Vermont Law School, 1989-1999. Federal Judicial Nominating Advisory Commission, 1988-1989, 1992. United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit: Committee on Admissions and Grievances, 1993—; Second Circuit Task Force on Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness, 1993-1998.

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